Friday, May 9, 2014

The Shannon Number

The Shannon Number is the number of possible chess games.  It is estimated to be between 10^111 and 10^123.  For comparison, it is estimated that there are 10^81 atoms in the known universe.

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  1. "between 10^111 and 10^123" So I take these are fairly large numbers. Got it! j

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